Mhucasey's SPS obsession
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mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Thanks Sahin
Up close that Granulosa is a lot prettier for sure, when it is seen from a little ways away all you see is green though. On the bottom it looks lighter too, it turned a very solid army green up in the higher light. I'll probably end up paring down the green Acros then get sick of blue next. Buddy is awesomesauce! So much personality in a little package!
Up close that Granulosa is a lot prettier for sure, when it is seen from a little ways away all you see is green though. On the bottom it looks lighter too, it turned a very solid army green up in the higher light. I'll probably end up paring down the green Acros then get sick of blue next
. Buddy is awesomesauce! So much personality in a little package!
Those are great pic from a iphone6 . I can't seem to take good shots like yours. I can't seem to focus correctly. Any tips?
I doing something wrong.
Thanks for the tip on lighting let's see if it works with led.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Thanks, I have to make do with the camera phone for now. I hope to get a camera sometime later this year but other things are ahead of it in the purchase queue. As for focus, I try to let the camera do it on its own and take several shots at once. Then I can pick through the batch to see what worked best. Forcing the camera to focus on a spot only works occasionally like I want. Luckily digital photos are free
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Update: I finally removed the large growth of Hollywood stunner from the overflow. This was grown out from a small chip of brown coral that I picked up the first week of the tanks life. There is a bit of this same coral on the side for now. For a green coral its pretty nice looking and it grows well, but it is a really mean coral...the thing stings anything close to it and it can send out sweepers over 6 inches away. After prying it off the wall, i noticed that there was a whole ton of brittle stars living behind it:
I got around 6 or so of these about two years ago from IPSF, and they are everywhere in cracks, pumps, reactors, you name it.
I also moved the other frag of the blue table acro I am rehabbing to a high shelf in the tank. this one is looking really good as well, considering when I got it the flesh was peeling off in a hurry:
After getting a bit pale, the pink millie is looking pretty good, although there is very little PE at this time. It seems to be forming growth tips here and there:
I got around 6 or so of these about two years ago from IPSF, and they are everywhere in cracks, pumps, reactors, you name it.
I also moved the other frag of the blue table acro I am rehabbing to a high shelf in the tank. this one is looking really good as well, considering when I got it the flesh was peeling off in a hurry:
After getting a bit pale, the pink millie is looking pretty good, although there is very little PE at this time. It seems to be forming growth tips here and there:
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
I'm excited about the table coral too! There is a touch of green in it but its light and fluorescent, hopefully it doesn't turn green. Either way my favorite growth form for Acros is tabling so it will be very cool if it keeps progressing. Buddy and all the dogs really can give me a face that makes me want to give them whatever they want!
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Update -
I've continued to do some rearranging in the tank, I'm trying to think about what corals will come with in the event of an upgrade and in the meantime opening up more flow around the reef. For a while I had a couple of spots I was just letting "run wild" and the corals grew all together into a mess.
In the top left side of the reef, I liberated a Pectinia coral I had almost forgotten that I had and cleared out/separated a bunch of orange Montipora Cap and Orange Montipora Digitata that were a bit of a mess. I moved the Digitata back and glued it to the overflow. Much better flow up there.
Here is a full tank shot from today:
On the far right I added back a modded Tunze Nanostream pointed toward the side glass, directed forward. I set the voltage to 12 volts and programmed it to switch on/off at 50% output 3 minutes at a time. It helps stir up the far right side under the Gyre. There was plenty of flow everywhere on the reef but this little bit extra has almost completely eliminated the last little patches of cyano that would form on the sand up next to a few rocks.
And from a little different angle:
I moved the Pectinia to the display refugia; I've been kind of neglecting this lately. I did get a Magnifica Nem for my sissy Fireclown and it is doing really well:
He couldn't be happier
I've continued to do some rearranging in the tank, I'm trying to think about what corals will come with in the event of an upgrade and in the meantime opening up more flow around the reef. For a while I had a couple of spots I was just letting "run wild" and the corals grew all together into a mess.
In the top left side of the reef, I liberated a Pectinia coral I had almost forgotten that I had and cleared out/separated a bunch of orange Montipora Cap and Orange Montipora Digitata that were a bit of a mess. I moved the Digitata back and glued it to the overflow. Much better flow up there.
Here is a full tank shot from today:
On the far right I added back a modded Tunze Nanostream pointed toward the side glass, directed forward. I set the voltage to 12 volts and programmed it to switch on/off at 50% output 3 minutes at a time. It helps stir up the far right side under the Gyre. There was plenty of flow everywhere on the reef but this little bit extra has almost completely eliminated the last little patches of cyano that would form on the sand up next to a few rocks.
And from a little different angle:
I moved the Pectinia to the display refugia; I've been kind of neglecting this lately. I did get a Magnifica Nem for my sissy Fireclown and it is doing really well:
He couldn't be happier
justinky
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Today I took a little drive down to the big acropora store down in San Diego, about a 40 minute drive each way. This place is massive and they have an amazing selection of across, but today there were more than I have ever seen.
I have a hard time resisting the urge to empty the bank account whenever i go there:
I would be living off of ramen noodles if I had that selection in my back yard
. Love your tank, good work. Also nice magnifica.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Thank you for the compliment!
Its very hard to restrain myself, and several times I didn't. The really nice thing about the store is that if i have a specific coral in mind they almost always have it, other than deepwater acros- they have some of those but not as good a selection as the others.
I love the Magnifica, though it will always be a Ritteri in my heart
I feel bad for whoever has to post the coral pictures to the web - 500 freaking pictures per week. I have to decide on a coral before I go down there or I end up with too many:crazy1:
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Ok so a bit of a bummer today, I was getting ready for work this morning and checked the tank to find the the pink mille was RTNing. No sign of issues with anything else, and the one branch of the same coral I fragged off the main colony on day one is still alive. Perhaps I hit it with too much light, or maybe it wasn't good from the start- It never had more than the tiniest bit of PE in the tank.
Here is what is strange: That spot has claimed more acros than any other spot in the tank, bar none. I have had multiple acros STN right there:
I have tried different flow patterns with the thought that it was a dead spot but it consistently seems to be dangerous for SPS. The water is moving there but its more laminar then on the left side.
I had a blueberry millie there for over a month and a half about 2 or 3 months ago that also RTNd. Its very weird and it makes me want to get into a bigger tank or re-do this one to get even more flow through the reef.
Here is what is strange: That spot has claimed more acros than any other spot in the tank, bar none. I have had multiple acros STN right there:
I have tried different flow patterns with the thought that it was a dead spot but it consistently seems to be dangerous for SPS. The water is moving there but its more laminar then on the left side.
I had a blueberry millie there for over a month and a half about 2 or 3 months ago that also RTNd. Its very weird and it makes me want to get into a bigger tank or re-do this one to get even more flow through the reef.
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